Technology & Modernity

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1 Technology & Modernity Samspillet mellem teknologi og samfund

2 Fornuft & frihed - Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

3 Rationalitet & Maskiner

4 Fremskridt

5 Æstetik

6 End of history De moderne De umoderne Paradoks: moderne betyder som ord blot nu eksisterende

7 Eisenstadt Sådan gik det ikke! Det originale, vestlige modernitetsprojekt, forbliver dog referencepunkt Alle er stadig på vej med enden - det moderne Modernitet er en flerhed af kulturelle programmer A general trend toward structural differentiation Medieres af sociale aktører og aktivister med meget forskellige bud på modernitet Derfor: multiple modernities

8 Hvad er så moderne? The autonomy of Man The emancipation of Man Det bestående er ikke bestandigt vi har agency Equality, freedom, justice, solidarity, guds broderskab Friktion mellem Pluralism: cooperative, anarchists, relativisme.. [der skal være plads til flere sandheder] Universalism: communist, socialist, liberalist, fascist [vi har den sande organisering] Temaer Moderne vs. traditionelle sektorer Rationel oplysning vs. autentisk kultur

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13 Modernitets translation [3. verdens eliter tog moderniteten til sig]..while selectively rejecting many of its aspects most notably that which took for granted the hegemony of the Western formulations of the cultural program of modernity. (Eisenstadt: 14)...continuous selection, reinterpretation, and reformulation of these imported ideas. (Eisenstadt: 15)

14 We are...itall modern is their major frame of reference (20) Har post-modernismen aflivet moderniteten? Rødstrømper, de grønne, multi-tolerance Religiøs fundamentalisme Etnisk neo-conservatisme...they share with communist movements the promulgation of totalistic visions entailing the transformation both of man and of society [ ] It is the total reconstruction of personality, of individual and collective identities, by conscious human action (Eisenstadt: 19)...these movements share an overarching concern about the relationship between the identities they promulgate and the universalistic themes promulgated by other hegemonic programs of modernity [e.g. USA] (Eisenstadt: 21)

15 We are all moderns Fortsat friktion mellem pluralisme og universalisme Vi nærmer os ikke the end of history Vi er heller ikke vidne til clash of civilizations Vi er blot vidner til the construction of multiple modernities (24) De-Westernization depriving the West of its monopoly on modernity

16 Vi har aldrig været moderne De er bedre at være i krig end at tro på historiske endestationer Så skal man nemlig tænke over diplomatiet Og spørge: what about peace?

17 One nature // many cultures Natur betyder her ontologi eller verdens primære kvaliteter Passions may divide us, but we can rely on reason to reunite us. There may be many ways of bringing up children, but there is only one embryogenesis (Latour: 7) Konflikter og vold hører til kulturen Westernization og modernisation kan bringes i tvivl Men ikke naturalization De andre er kulturer, men vi er kun halv-kulturer da vi også er halv-naturer We are able to grasp [the world] objectively (Latour: 15)

18 Universalitet eller konstruktion?

19 Universalitet eller konstruktion?

20 Bruno Latour We have never been modern

21 Multi-naturalism Vi skal studere: hybrids of law, science, technology, passion and social ties (Latour: 21) Objekter skal blive ting igen (som i kollektiver og folketing) The common world is not behind us and ready made, like nature, but ahead of us, an immense task (Latour: 29) Nobody can constitute the unity of the world for anybody else, as used to be the case (in the times of modernism and later post-modernism), that is, by generously offering to let the others in, on condition that they leave at the door all that is dear to them (Latour: 30)

22 Latour's politiske projekt The relevant question for the diplomats would no longer be, Is it or isn t it constructed? but rather: How do you manufacture them? And, above all, How do you verify that they are well constructed? Here is where negotiations could begin: with the question of the right ways to build. (Latour: 40)